Title: Nor Iron Bars a CageFandom: SupernaturalRating/Pairing: PG, gen... ish...Summary: Reflections on the past ("We were closer than brothers once. Do you remember?") and promises for the future. Spoilers, sort of, for 4x21.

We were inseparable, once. Closer than brothers. Closer than lovers. Do you remember? Do you?

I would have done anything for you. You knew that. Do you still?

I don't know when things... changed... but they did. You changed. Somehow, I wasn't good enough for you. Somehow, the connection between us became one-sided. Somehow, I was no longer a part of your life.

And when I did what you forced me to? You locked me away. Chained me. Hated me, for what I'd done and for what I was.

I reached out to you, and you turned away. (Am I really so repulsive?) I called your name, and you didn't hear. I needed you, and you abandoned me.

You loved me once. Do you remember?

But I've had time, locked in this cell made of iron and magic and hatred, to think. About you; about us.

I am done loving you.

I would have done anything for you, once. And that is still true: I will destroy the world for you. Take away your precious humans, take away everything you care about, and when it is all over -- when I am freed, when the war ends, when I have won -- when you have nothing left but despair...

... when you call me by name ...

(You were the one that named me; do you remember that? Lucifer, light-bringer. And you were the one that forced me into darkness. Was it worth it?)

...when you cry to me, I will turn away.

Because I have learned this from you: Chains do not last, seals can be broken, but hatred binds forever.